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Watching an endless loop of ten second clips? Haha this younger generation. When I was your age we used to watch a variety show starring an ostrich puppet, a man with a cowboy hat and a reel to reel sound player. It was so racist Harry Connick Jr. made a formal protest. It was three hours long
June 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Animals - Masashi Ichikawa
April 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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You've been begging for it, and here it is! Announcing an exciting new product from Yarn Spinner Co:

🪐 Mass Effect 2 Save Importer for Yarn Spinner 🚀

Access everything about everything that players have done in the most important game of all time, straight from Yarn.

yarnspinner.dev/mesaves
April 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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"what does it even mean to be nonbinary if you just present as your assigned gender" well for one thing i am able to compel computers to treat me with fear and respect
March 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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so, I got a bit sick of people asking me about generative AI and @yarnspinner.dev, so I wrote some LinkedIn-style (sorry) thought leadership on the matter

hey.paris/posts/genai/
The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity
“Are you going to add AI writing to Yarn Spinner?” It’s a question I hear almost weekly these days. Whether at game development conferences, online, or during meetings, there’s an assumption that ever...
hey.paris
March 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything
February 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Pink - Emi
February 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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the banning of tiktok is another painful reminder to buy physical copies of your media. i have dozens of dvds of an ai voice reading reddit comments over unrelated minecraft footage.
January 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Do you come to AUC #DevWorld or #XWorld? Might want to keep 2-5 September free this year. And plan to be in #Melbourne.

#conference #event #iosdev #macos #appledev
January 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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interview about a cool upcoming game that uses Yarn Spinner!
We chatted with #Demonschool creator Brandon Sheffield. Not only a beautiful blend of SMT demon hunting, Persona‘s social management with quick tactical combat, but also inspired by numerous classic horror movies... All of this appeals to me!

Full Q+A👉 www.rpgfan.com/feature/demo...
January 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Some people are paid to watch the tinder for a wildfire alight in ember and only call when the chemical cascade begins its exponential.

Others are sentenced to get in there and fucking rake the firebreak.

Are you paying someone to rake, or are you waiting to watch the firestorm. Make a choice.
January 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty
January 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Very Strawberry - Tomomi Imura
January 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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January 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Brian Moore - Nitehawk Jarrett
January 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I love this quote from Ed's essay: "true masculinity is a sense of responsibility for both oneself and others, and finding strength in supporting and uplifting them with sincerity and honesty"

Yes.
Newsletter: Mark Zuckerberg's MAGA pivot is really just the continuation of years of rotting out the core products of Instagram and Facebook - and begins an era of unrestrained, unrepentant growth where tech will proudly make their products even worse.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-slop-society/
The Slop Society
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too pol...
www.wheresyoured.at
January 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This is it in a nutshell. They don't want to work out a picture, they don't want to have an idea and develop it with sketches or brush strokes that take it in new, better directions and they certainly don't want to learn from mistakes, they just want to be given something.
AI is for people who don't want to or can't think. Period.

I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.
Today I opened up Word and now on every freaking line there is an icon for Microsoft's Copilot AI tool, always asking me to use it to write. WTF. After googling, it appears IMPOSSIBLE to remove. I cannot use Word with an AI tool. I'm a professional fucking writer. I don't want it inserting shit.
January 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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fuji-iBondi - Hiroyuki Fujisaki
January 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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OnlyFans model creates SFW content on PornHub, publishes post to LinkedIn explaining that she gets a much higher rate on PornHub vs YouTube ($1,000 per million views on Pornhub versus YouTube’s $340), and then LinkedIn takes down her post and bans her.

www.404media.co/why-this-onl...
Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub
Justice Alito should watch this Pornhub video about calculus.
www.404media.co
January 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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GirlTalk - Emi
January 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
July 29, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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FYI, folks from Bluesky. Workers at The Barn, among other agricultural buildings, are now shutting the door after the horse got out. Shutting the door, telling people the door is shut, is a form of accountability for the horse that’s now completely free.
FYI, folks from Bluesky. Reporters at The NYT, among other news organizations, are now generating a giant wave of accountability stories about the new Trump era. Reading these stories, sharing them, is a form of accountability as well. It is a form of participatory democracy too. Substance matters.
January 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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i think it’s unfair to expect regular people to know precisely how journalism works so i will say the answer to “why did they sit on that story for so long” is often “because of lawyers”
January 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM